Since the installation of an ITER-like wall, the JET programme has focused on the consolidation of ITER design choices and the preparation for ITER operation, with a specific emphasis given to the bulk tungsten melt experiment, which has been crucial for the final decision on the material choice for the day-one tungsten divertor in ITER. Integrated scenarios have been progressed with the re-establishment of long-pulse, high-confinement H-modes by optimizing the magnetic configuration and the use of ICRH to avoid tungsten impurity accumulation. Stationary discharges with detached divertor conditions and small edge localized modes have been demonstrated by nitrogen seeding. The differences in confinement and pedestal behaviour before and after the ITER-like wall installation have been better characterized towards the development of high fusion yield scenarios in DT. Post-mortem analyses of the plasma-facing components have confirmed the previously reported low fuel retention obtained by gas balance and shown that the pattern of deposition within the divertor has changed significantly with respect to the JET carbon wall campaigns due to the absence of thermally activated chemical erosion of beryllium in contrast to carbon. Transport to remote areas is almost absent and two orders of magnitude less material is found in the divertor.
The dense plasma focus (DPF) device—DPF-1000U which is operated at the Institute
of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion is the largest that type plasma experiment
in the world. The plasma that is formed in large plasma experiments is characterized
by vast numbers of parameters. All of them need to be monitored. A neutron
activation method occupies a high position among others plasma diagnostic methods.
The above method is off-line, remote, and an integrated one. The plasma which has
enough temperature to bring about nuclear fusion reactions is always a strong source
of neutrons that leave the reactions area and take along energy and important
information on plasma parameters and properties as well. Silver as activated
material is used as an effective way of neutrons measurement, especially when they
are emitted in the form of short pulses like as it happens from the plasma produced
in Dense Plasma-Focus devices. Other elements such as beryllium and yttrium are
newly introduced and currently tested at the Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser
Microfusion to use them in suitable activation neutron detectors. Some specially
designed massive indium samples have been recently adopted for angular neutrons
distribution measurements (vertical and horizontal) and have been used in the recent
plasma experiment conducted on the DPF-1000U device. This choice was substantiated
by relatively long half-lives of the neutron induced isotopes and the threshold
character of the
115In(n,n′)115mIn nuclear
reaction.
The neutron flux emitted from fusion devices induces many different nuclear reactions that can activate the vacuum chamber and irradiate operators. A c-spectrometer was mounted inside the Plasma Focus (PF) PF-1000, the world's largest plasma focus facility, after completing a campaign. Qualitative analysis was performed following a lengthy c-spectrum acquisition period. Instrumental neutron activation analysis identified the elemental composition of the vacuum chamber for use by a Monte Carlo N-Particle simulation. In this way, the radioactivity accumulated inside the PF-1000 as the function of time was calculated.
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